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WILLIAM COULSON was born March 22, 1807, and died November 24, 1884, at the age of seventy-seven. He married first his cousin, MARY E. COULSON, daughter of his uncle, THOMAS A. COULSON, in 1834 or 1835. She died December 8, 1835, within a year of their marriage. They had no children.
WILLIAM COULSON married second to EMELINE WILLETT HARVEY, a widow, who was born September 26, 1815, and died June 12, 1878, at the age of sixty- two. They were the parents of the following children:
SAUL COULSON was born March 18, 1809, and died October 19, 1890, at the age of eighty-one. He married on December 23, 1834, to HANNAH HOLLAND who was born July 2, 1813, and died September 27, 1872, at the age of fifty-nine.
SAUL COULSON and HANNAH HOLLAND were the parents of the following children:
Henry J. Coulson noted that "Saul Coulson owned the farm directly north of the one his father owned, having purchased it from a man named Lockard about the time the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad was built. Saul Coulson was killed by an engine on the C&PRR while coming home from the spring located just across the track from his house. It was about dark and the engine was running without having the head-light lighted and did not whistle for the public-road crossing at that place. He had lived on that farm over fifty years. He was very active, his hearing and sight were good for a man of his age."
Henry J. Coulson also published the following account, from "a Lisbon paper" of a suit brought against the railroad company for causing the death of Saul Coulson.
The trial of the case of Edmund Dutton, administrator, etc., vs. the Pennsylvania Company, which has occupied the attention of common pleas court since last Monday, terminated Thursday afternoon. The points in the case are as follows: About dark on the evening of October 19, 1890, Saul Coulson, aged about eighty years, who lived near the Cleveland and Pittsburgh track, in the vicinity of Kensington, started to cross the track to get a bucket of water from a spring on the opposite side of the track from where he lived.The friends of the unfortunate man said that at the point where he was killed a public road crosses the railroad, and that his death was the result of carelessness on the part of the trainmen in that they sounded no signal for the crossing, and did not have the head-light of the locomotive lighted. The administrator of Coulson's estate sued the railroad for damages in the sum of $1,900 and the jury brought in a verdict for plaintiff for $100 damages.
HERVEY COULSON was born April 18, 1812, and died May 12, 1861, at the age of forty-nine. He married on July 16, 1835, to NANCY CROZIER who was born May 8, 1814, and died October 20, 1855, at the age of forty-one.
HERVEY COULSON and NANCY CROZIER were the parents of the following children:
JABEZ V. COULSON was born November 30, 1813, and died July 27, 1861, at the age of forty-seven. He married on November 30, 1841, to SARAH McCANN who was born June 14, 1822.
JABEZ V. COULSON and SARAH McCANN were the parents of the following children:
JOHN B. COULSON was born March 30, 1816, and died September 30, 1873, at the age of fifty-seven. He married on November 3, 1842, to RACHEL RISH who was born February 8, 1827.
JOHN B. COULSON and RACHEL RISH were the parents of the following children:
SAMUEL COULSON was born July 8, 1818, and died January 21, 1881, at the age of sixty-two. He married first on April 25, 1844, to HANNAH REEDER who was born April 19, 1826, and died April 12, 1856, a week before her thirtieth birthday. Hannah died less than a month after the birth of her youngest child, Clark.
SAMUEL COULSON and HANNAH REEDER were the parents of the following children:
LOT COULSON was born December 9, 1820, and died May 2, 1894, at the age of seventy-three. He married on December 8, 1842, to MARY WALKER (daughter of JOHN WALKER and SARAH UNKNOWN) who was born June 10, 1820, and died February 10, 1887, at the age of 66 years of age.
LOT COULSON and MARY WALKER were the parents of the following children:
ISAAC COULSON was born in 1780. He married NANCY NEWMAN.
ISAAC COULSON and NANCY NEWMAN were the parents of the following child:
SARAH COULSON was born April 1, 1795, and died on July or February 24, 1868, at the age of seventy-three. She married on March 22, 1815, to WILLIAM LANGDON. They were the parents of the following children:
JACOB COULSON was born August 7, 1806, and died April 12, 1844, at the age of thirty-seven. He married SARAH GREGG who was born on February 24, 1807, and died August 5 or 7, 1877, at the age of seventy.
JACOB COULSON and SARAH GREGG were the parents of the following children:
WILLIAM COULSON was born March 11, 1810, at the family homestead near Greenville, Greene County, Tennesseee, and died May 6, 1887, at the age of seventy-seven. He is buried at New Hope Cemetery, Moravia, Iowa. He married first on December 29, 1831, to MARGARET SLATERY (said to be a descendant of Margaret Coulson and John Coppock) who died December 26, 1852.
WILLIAM COULSON and MARGARET SLATERY were the parents of the following children:
WILLIAM COULSON married second MARTHA KINSER on January 12, 1854. She died March 24, 1882.
WILLIAM COULSON and MARTHA KINSER were the parents of the following children:
Theodore M. Coulson reported the following to Henry J. Coulson, who published it:
William Coulson went in an early day to Iowa. One of his sons, whose name I think was Jabez visited Jabez [that is, William's brother Jabez] at Morgantown, Tennessee, about the spring of 1861, but did not remain long account of getting back over the line between the two opposing armies. The family of William has not been heard of since.
At another location in his book, Henry published the following additional story about William:
He was born at the homestead near Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee. Moved with his father to Blount County, Tennessee, in 1829. In 1931, after his marriage, he moved to Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he first rented a farm of John Coppoch - his wife's uncle - near Mossy Creek, where he remained until 1840. At that date he purchased a farm of three hundred acres, five and one- half miles north of Dandridge county seat of Jefferson County. Here he remained until 1850, when he sold out and finally settled in Appanoose County, Iowa, where he bought about a thousand acres of government land and engaged in farming and stock raising. During his lifetime he accumulated quite a fortune, at his death owning about sixteen hundred acres of valuable farming land. As to his religious views he advocated the Quaker doctrine; politically, he was a democrat. His first marriage was to Margaret Slatery on December 29, 1831; she died December 26, 1852.
JABEZ COULSON was born on August 30, 1813, in Tennessee, and died on September 17, 1876, at the age of sixty-three. He married JANE JONES of Blount County, Tennessee, who died March 27, 1883. Their son, Thedore M. Coulson, advised in the late 1800's that they followed the Presbyterian faith. He also advised that "I have examined a book that I have Cattle Industry of Texas, Historical and Biographical, published in 1895. It states that my father was born in Green County, Tennessee, in 1813." He also advised, "my grandfather moved from Green to Blount County, Tennessee, when my father was 8 or 10 years of age."
JABEZ COULSON and JANE JONES were the parents of the following children:
Henry J. Coulson published the following account concerning Jabez Coulson, which was provided to him by Theodore M. Coulson:
Jabez was in the mercantile business at Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas. He went to St. Louis on business and while there was taken sick. His son, Theodore, being notified of his father's illness, went there but his father died before he arrived in St. Louis. He took his father's remains to Mansfield where he was buried with Masonic honors. His three sons are members of that Fraternity, P.D. and Theodore are also members of the I.O.O.F. In politics they are all of the Democratic party.During the civil war Jabez Coulson's record of the Coulson family extending probably to 1600, A.D., together with a very fine Library of books and records were destroyed. They lived in Eastern Tennessee during the time of the war, it being a hot time for the women and children in the south, the year following the surrender was almost as bad as the two years previous. Theodore who was a boy of about 13 years old at that time says he did not look after family records or anything else, but a good safe place for protection. He gives the names of some of the Coulson family and the place or country wherein they resided: Caroline Coulson, Leicester; Elizabeth, Norfolk; Emma, Manchester; George, Australia, the word "service" also appears here; Henry and John Australia; Joseph, Northumberland; Joseph, London; William Coulson, Norfolk.
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